Easy and Delicious Indian Recipes

If you like to try eating something new all the time and experiment, perhaps you should start thinking about Indian cuisine, which offers a wide range of special and unique recipes. While some people complain that Indian food is too spicy and that it is sometimes difficult to prepare, there are also many easy and delicious Indian recipes that you can try. Moreover, when cooking for yourself you can afford certain licenses, so you can spice the food and season it just the way you like.

In what follows we are going to recommend some Indian recipes that you and your loved ones will surely appreciate and like, and which perhaps will raise your appetite for this kind of food. To begin with, you can try cooking the chickpea spinach curry with cucumber-yogurt sauce. Here are the ingredients you need: 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, 1 chopped onion, 4 chopped cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp. of curry powder, 1 tbsp. of ginger, 2 cans of chickpeas, 1 cup of Greek yogurt, 1 small pack of frozen and chopped spinach, 1 cucumber chopped and quarter cup of chopped cilantro.

This is one of the simplest and tastiest Indian recipes, and this is how you prepare it: first, you heat some oil in a pan and then you add the onion, garlic and ginger, cooking them for about five minutes. When they are nice and done you add the curry powder and cook for one more minute. Next, you just add the spinach, chickpeas, salt, pepper, and two cups of water. Stir well and bring the mixture to a simmer, waiting for about 12 minutes. In the end the food should be a bit thicker, after some of the water evaporates. While this is getting ready, take a bowl and mix together the yogurt, cucumber and cilantro, adding salt and pepper for taste as well. The food is served by adding the yogurt on top of the food and with nan bread.

If you feel like tasting some less adventurous Indian recipes, then you can try preparing some chicken curry. This recipe shouldn’t take more than 40 minutes to prepare, using the following ingredients: 1 cup of white rice, 1 small onion sliced, 1 1/2 tbsp. of olive oil, half a cup of yogurt, 2 tsp. curry powder, half tsp. of salt, almost one cup of cream, a bit of pepper, one can of sliced and diced tomatoes, the meat from a rotisserie chicken and quarter cup of fresh chopped cilantro.

The preparation goes as follows: first, you cook the rice as indicated on its package and meanwhile heat some oil in the pan. Add the onion in the pan and cook it for about five minutes, or until it is golden. Now you add the curry powder and cook for one more minute, after which you add the yogurt and cream on top, cooking for 3 minutes more until you add the salt, tomatoes and pepper. When the chicken and rice are done, divide them in bowls equally, adding your curry sauce from the pan on top of them. Sprinkle fresh cilantro on top and you’ve got a good and healthy meal ready for eating.

As you can see, Indian recipes are quite interesting and, while they use much the same ingredients as Western cuisine, they manage to create something totally new and unique. If you are a fan of comfort food you should know that Indian cuisine also has a lot of great such dishes. Chicken Shorba is the Indian version of a chicken soup recipe and it is one of the most delicious comfort dishes. If you like this soup recipe you might also want to consider Dal Shorba, Mulligtawney Soup, Tamatar Ka Shorba and Basil And Badam Soup.